IN EUROPE AND RUSSIA21
OUTLINE OF LECTURES
F I R S T V A R I A N T
M A R X I S T V I E W S O F T H E A G R A R I A N
Q U E S T I O N
I N E U R O P E A N D R U S S I A
A.
General Theory of the Agrarian Question.
1.
Growth of commercial agriculture.—Phases of proc-
ess.—Formation 
of 
market: 
towns.—Peasant-
industrialist (Capital, III, 2?).22—Remnants of natu-
ral economy.—Degree of peasant’s subordination
to market.—Free competition in agriculture. For
how long?
N.B.
Decline of natural peasant household industries
K. Kautsky and Engels.23
Need of money (Usurers. T a x e s).
2.
Law of diminishing returns. Ricardo—Marx (Bulgakov
and Maslov lately).
3.
Theory of rent. Ricardo—Marx: differential and abso-
lute rent. (Maslov’s mistake.)
3a.
S e p a r a t i o n o f t o w n f r o m c o u n t r y (cf.
Bulgakov and Hertz. Zarya No. 2-3.24 Nossig*).
4.
Present agricultural crisis. (Parvus).
Inflation and consolidation of rent. Burden of rent.
* See pp. 263-64.—Ed.
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